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The tired “omg this generation is SO sensitive!” comments are so exhausting and old. This shit has always been offensive and people have always been hurt by it. People have also been speaking out about it for years - decades - if you’ve cared to listen. It’s only recently that people have actually been listening, and

Itdoesn’t matter who the target of the joke it. Intent isn’t magic.

Drag isn’t necessarily offensive to women. It’s about performing gender and deconstructing our idea of what it means to be masculine or feminine.

I don’t know how the people you know were able to get this done, but in practice, getting emancipated as a teenager is actually very difficult. You not only have to prove that you have some “good reason” for emancipation (which usually requires serious neglect or abuse on the part of your parents or legal guardians,

Me too. I left home at 18 and it infuriated me that the financial aid system counted my parents’ income until I was 24. I had to go through the same fight every year to try to get tax documents from my parents to file my FAFSA on my own just to keep my scholarship.

If you’re going to be a doctor or a lawyer, it matters even less. Med schools don’t care where you went to undergrad. Law schools do a little bit, but kids from state schools go to top law schools all the time. And after that, all that matters is your graduate degree.

But women do actually take time to pump at work, several times a day. The ability to do so without repercussions is enshrined in work law.

I’ve worked on a team that has conducted research with video game streamers. Yes, turning your camera off for an extended period of time on the days on which you stream can affect your income stream, heavily. Making money on Twitch is all about consistency and reliability in posting and streaming.

Video gamers have breasts and breast feed, too.

Even if we accept the asinine argument that she was doing this as an advertisement (...for what? Breastmilk?)...so what? Many men do far more outrageous and stupid and useless stuff on video streams for likes and don’t get flack for it.

This is me. I’m a full-time employee in my thirties. Please give me a tightly-paced, engaging game that is 20 hours or less. I do not want to play 100+ hour games.

Finish the article, then try again.

Start-up life?

They worked on it for six weeks, which isn’t months quite yet; they also appeared to get suspicious pretty early on, and just took time to build their case.

I went to stay with my sister for a week when she brought her newborn son, my nephew, home from the hospital. She’s a single mom, so I wanted to help take shifts so she could get some rest.

...wait, what? You believe Donald Trump sucks less than Hillary Clinton?

I know Willingboro. I used to live in Williamstown as a kid, and my cousins still live in Sewell and Deptford. We had friends in Willingboro and would roll our eyes whenever we had to go out there.

You are wrong, and there is a history of receipts to prove you wrong. There are lots of times when businesses have change their practices through the result of public pressure, boycotts, social media movements and protests. Please pick up a book or take a history class.

What the fuck does any of that have to do with whether or not something is racist?

Nah, Living Single was more akin to Friends than Sex and the City.